Re: Memory problem

[Filip Sneppe <filip.sneppe@cronos.be>]

Hi Cilliè,

On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 17:04, Cilliè Burger wrote:

> Here are the details you requested.
> 
>  cat /proc/meminfo
>          total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> Mem:  63598592 62529536  1069056        0 23306240 19935232
> Swap: 200237056  3911680 196325376
> MemTotal:        62108 kB
> MemFree:          1044 kB
> MemShared:           0 kB
> Buffers:         22760 kB
> Cached:          19192 kB
> SwapCached:        276 kB
> Active:          26476 kB
> Inact_dirty:     14428 kB
> Inact_clean:      2428 kB
> Inact_target:     8664 kB
> HighTotal:           0 kB
> HighFree:            0 kB
> LowTotal:        62108 kB
> LowFree:          1044 kB
> SwapTotal:      195544 kB
> SwapFree:       191724 kB
> Committed_AS:     6052 kB
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
>  cat /proc/slabinfo
> slabinfo - version: 1.1
> kmem_cache            61     70    112    2    2    1
> ip_conntrack        1193   1628    352  127  148    1
...
> inode_cache        17328  19976    496 2497 2497    1
> dentry_cache       17522  23275    112  665  665    1
...
> buffer_head         9797  12040     96  272  301    1
...

> 
> wc -l /proc/net/ip_conntrack
>    1107 /proc/net/ip_conntrack
> 

See, ip_conntrack is only using 1193 * 352 bytes per connection, 
and the number of connections tracked is quite reasonable.

You can also see that a fair amount of RAM is simply used
for caching of filesytem operations (see cached: entry
of meminfo output and the inode_cache and dentry_cache
in slabinfo output).

So I wouldn't worry about any memory leaks in netfilter
connection tracking. The numbers you provided look quite normal.

Regards,
Filip